Acolyte is gay
‘The Acolyte’ Creator Doesn’t Accept Her New Star Wars Series Is “Queer With a Capital Q”
In 2019, Leslye Headland, fresh off two Emmy noms as co-creator of Russian Doll, was walking the blue carpet at the Star Wars: The Go up of Skywalker premiere when she was asked if she had any Star Wars ideas of her own.
Headland responded that she’s had Star Wars stories in mind since childhood and, in an Oscar-worthy performance, urged Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy to give her a shot. Well, the truth is that she was already hard at work on what would later be known as Star Wars: The Acolyte, becoming the first openly queer person to create a live-action project set in a galaxy far, far away.
Headland — whose first produced TV script for the critically acclaimed yet short-lived 2010 series, Terriers, was directed by future Star Wars: The Last Jedi filmmaker Rian Johnson — ensured that the LGBTQ+ community was well represented on her new Disney+ series. She immediately envisioned The Dislike U Give star Amandla Stenberg in The Acolyte’s dual lead role of identical twins Osha and Mae Aniseya. She even had concept art created wit
The following Star Wars: The Acolyte review contains spoilers for episodes one and two.
In November of 2020, Disney announced over ten new series set in the Star Wars space that would hit the streaming service in the coming years. Among these was The Acolyte, a mystery thriller set over a hundred years before the earliest set motion picture in the series timeline The Phantom Menace. It would be helmed by Leslye Headland, the executive producer of the Netflix time-loop dramedy Russian Doll. The Acolyte was also unique among these announced shows in that it was pretty much the only offering that didn’t center on a previously existing character or attend as a spin-off to familiar shows like The Mandalorian. The Acolyte was an enigma, and that was an exciting adjust of pace for a franchise that has rightly been criticized in recent years for becoming increasingly self-interested and risk averse.
In the spring of 2023, Headland called her initial pitch for the series “Kill Bill meets Frozen” which is about as wild a logline as I can think of, but, oddly enough, it feels like a beautiful accurate description. Although it does comfortably sit within a mystery-thriller frame
So far, the show has introduced several gay characters and one possibly non-binary character. You can argue that anything is feasible in a Galaxy far away, and it’s nonsensical to even discuss the sexual orientation of the characters in the show that is not strictly about that, still, fans are protesting.
Episode 3 was highly controversial due to introducing a coven of witches who are capable of reproducing by using force, without men, the two “mothers” of Osha& Maeare also seemingly romantically involved. Then in episode 4, we see an awkward interaction between Dafne Keen’s Jecki Lon and Amandla Stenberg’s Osha. I state awkward beacuse the scene was intentionally written like that, with Jecki Lon displaying all of her teenage shyness,...
See full article at Comic Basics
Now facing a negative response, Headland claims that her exhibit is being interpreted in unintended ways, but she remains proud to motivate the LGBT community.
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Headland stated that her show is not “Queer with a capital Q,” and she is unsure what “gay” would even mean in that context.
“I was surprised by the question. Amandla and I just burst out laughing because that’s our knee-jerk reaction to being asked that, but to be honest, I don’t know what the term ‘gay’ means in that sense. I don’t believe that I’ve created queer, with a capital Q, content.”
When fans relate to ‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ as “gay,...
Just how gay is new Star Wars series ‘The Acolyte’?
Under the guidance of Disney, the earth of Star Wars just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
The latest chapter is the franchise is The Acolyte, a new series that’s set earlier in the story’s timeline than any of the previous instalments.
Some fans include not taken to the new series, following comments from showrunner Leslye Headland that described in as the gayest take on Actor Wars to go out.
So, is it any good? Just how gay is it? And accomplish we need yet another Star Wars series?
George Lucas introduced the nature the Star Wars universe set a long time ago in a galaxy far away in 1977. An instant phenomenon he expanded it into a trilogy of films with The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and Return of the Jedi in 1983.
Lucas later added a prequel trilogy with The Phantom Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005).
After selling his business to Disney they expanded the nature further with three films set after the original trilogy The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017) and The Rise of Skywalker (2019).
Disney’s also made some films